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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agent Eval Platform

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building the judgement layer of an agent evaluation platform to score multi-step agent trajectories in enterprise systems, creating calibrated signals for training and optimization.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (agent evaluation & reward modeling)

Builds

A calibrated judge artifact, process reward models, and a simulated world substrate for agent optimization.

Domain

Agentic AI, enterprise automation, LLM evaluation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

applied ML fundamentals, Python, LLM evaluation and fine-tuning, rubric design, human annotation program management, offline/online divergence analysis, step-level fault attribution

Preferred skills

LLM-as-judge design, search ranking/recsys evaluation, reward modeling (RLHF/RLAIF), agent trajectory analysis, prompt engineering as an engineering discipline

Technologies

Python, LLMs, simulation environments

Responsibilities

Design shared base judges with per-item rubrics; split validation between deterministic validators and LLM judges; implement scoring with confidence reporting; run calibration loops against human labels; fine-tune small judge models; guard against correlated blind spots; build process reward models for agent optimization; maintain versioned scenarios and simulated worlds.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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